Unspeakably brutal guitar patterns, multi-layered and yet beautiful synth walls, ingeninous arrangements combined with electronics, devastating drum parts, complex bass assaults and the unique vocals coming straight from the deep pits of Hell! Recordings for their massive fourth album called Omega Arcane are now finished. The album consists of 11 songs and over 74 minutes! Omega Arcane is massive, heavily orchestraded concept album. It will seriously put their sound to whole new level.

Tangled in Reins is the second album by Steelheart, recorded and produced in Los Angeles. It only reached #144 on the Billboard 200. However, the ballad "Mama Don't You Cry" reached #1 in Hong Kong, and Japan, prompting an MTV unplugged show in Hong Kong.

The Philadelphia Orchestra was founded in 1900 by German musician and director Fritz Scheel. He has been succeeded to date by various prestigious directors, among which Leopold Stokowski, followed by the Hungarian Eugene Ormandy between 1936 and 1980, which was the longest directed. Ormandy conducted many of the most famous recordings of the orchestra, including this album offering a brief compilation of classic tracks dedicated to the waltz music.

For half-a-century genre-jumping jazz veteran Dave Brubeck has been redefining hip, and in this performance the man who would become the first jazz musician ever to make the cover of Time Magazine offers a satisfying collection of familiar classics and intoxicating new tunes.

It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil, and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz repertoire, both expanded their reach into the concert hall, and both tend to symbolize their countries in the eyes of the rest of the world. With their gracefully urbane, sensuously aching melodies and harmonies, Jobim's songs gave jazz musicians in the 1960s a quiet, strikingly original alternative to their traditional Tin Pan Alley source.

While the first Emerald Rain album was a good slice of Harem Scarem-influenced hard rock, this second effort sees the band maturing and finding a sound of their own. The Harem Scarem influence is still quite strong, and there are traces of Dokken, Lillian Axe and even Metallica there, but the band has managed to filter them nicely into their own style.

I've been following this gloomy Norwegian gothic death metal group fer many a year now, and their career isn't the simplest to sum up. Let's try shall we, since this'll be their lastest album. They've veered from their first two records of mournful epics uplifted by operatic vocals, to hate-fuelled, Dimmu-style melodic extremities with the next two, and recently to a more compact sound partway between Tristania and Penumbra…